What Queenslanders in Peter Dutton’s nuclear seats really think

David 'Bushie' Stewart, a retired coal worker living in Maidenwell – or ‘woop woop’ – who thinks coalmines and power stations should stay online while there’s coal to be dug up. Photograph: Joe Hinchliffe/The Guardian

Some nights, when the wind blows from the east, Yvonne Johnstone goes to sleep to the hum of the Tarong power station. Occasionally, she finds ash from the coal-fired plant scattered among the vegetables and fruit trees of her five-acre block. “It forms a ring,” she says.

“As if it’s gone up in a cloud and then fallen”.